Japanese?

Does anyone know if a full Japanese character set is available for TeX? -- "This job's too hard for us!" - Andy and Randy Pig

tkrat problem

Hi all, I'm trying to use tkrat but I have this problem where it keeps locking the mailbox. Any time I start tkrat it creates a lock file in the mail box, then it won't close because the mailbox is locked, the only way out is to kill the rat. Any subsequent mail program can't open the mailbox e

G3

Hallo all, Has anyone put Debian GNU/Linux onto Apples new G3? Are there any particular issues one should be aware of when putting Debian onto Apples? I've never touched an Apple before so I'm just wondering... thanks

changing irq of eth0

How do you change the irq of a network card? I want to change the irq from 15 to 10. The card is already set to 10 but GNU/Linux seems to want it at 15. So where do I say it's 10? thanks

compiling debian source

Finally, How do I compile up Debian source code safely so that it doesn't upset dpkg? Specifically, I want to recompile VIM to use the X version, but I don't want to upgrade to Slink and have to do the job all over again. There must be a safe 'Debian' way? I had a look at dpkg-sourc

X locks up

I've got this strange problem with X, occasionally after the screen blanking comes on, the system hangs when I move the mouse. The screen comes back but nothing works, the keyboard is locked and best of all, so are the hard-drives. In fact the only way to get out of this lock is to hit the reset

tkrat hangs

I've got this strange in TKRat whereby everytime I exit TKRat doesn't remove the lock file in /var/spool/mail. This means that everytime I start it I get a message about the mail file being locked and this causes TKRat to hang. Is anyone able to tell me how to cure this problem?

hiding sterr

Hi all How do I hide error messages displaying on the console? I'm trying to set up IPX and whenever I get it wrong the screen is flooded with error messages I don't know how to redirect them to either a file or /dev/null. Any suggestions would be helpful thanks

SAMBA and Peer Networks?

Hi all, I have installed SAMBA on my machine at work but what I really want to do is to be able to read other peoples shared Windows9x folder et al. It this possible with SAMBA or is SAMBA just a server-side application? Thanks

jdk1.1

Hallo all, I tried to install the JDK1.1 from hamm but I've hit a wall. I assume you don't just run dselect and have it completely instal itself? The accompanying documentation describes setting up the CLASSPATH and other stuff about finding the classes folder in /usr/lib/jdk1.1 but it

mail to multiple machines

Hallo all, I'm not all that well up on how mail works so it's a bit of a mess at the moment, but here's my current problem. I have two user accounts set up on my machine at home, this one for the Debian group and my 'normail' login account. It's like this for two reasons, firstly

smail mail

I've read the documentation but I can't find what I'm looking for. mailq lists the mail waiting to be sent, but is there a command that says "Send all waiting mail NOW!" ? thanks tb

Help needed with laptop

Hallo all, I relly hope you can help me with this REALLY annoying problem. I recently bought a Sony VAIO 747 (impulse) and I want to put Debian on it (I have 2.0 (hamm)). I can put Red Hat 5.1 on it easily. But Debian is a bitch. Sometimes it starts and sometimes it doesn't. It

StarOffice is unruly

Hallo again everyone, After spending seven hours downloading StarOffice before Christmas, I find it on the cover of this months PCPlus. Typical! Anyway, whenever I start StarOffice 90% of the time it starts with the windows titlebar above the top of my screen and slightly to the

Caldera Netware

Hallo everyone, I need to get my Debian 2.0 box on the Novell network at work. I found the Caldera NetWare stuff including the client software for a GNU/Linux system. Now I have a couple of problems with this, first it's in .rpm format. That's ok because 'alien' converts everything t

ftping StarOffice in small doses

Hi all, I want to download StarOffice but with it being 70Mb I don't fancy having an open line for seven hours plus. Does anyone know of an ftp program that can download in chunks at a time and doesn't mind frequent interruptions. I think in the past someone mentioned 'cftp' but I can't

modem problems

I am damned if I can get my modem to work under linux. Here's the general situation. While I installed from the floppies and selected to do an ftp install, the modem seemed to work. I say seemed because I was having problems with it under Windows 98 that have now been resolved. However on the lates